Chapter 72
The stone passageway glowed with a blue light, and Mo Xiaoxin felt a cool sensation when she touched it; it was actually Lantian jade.
Although the blue light was not strong, it did make it easier for them to walk.
For some reason, although there was no sense of being spied on or murderous, she always felt an unusual eeriness.
But she couldn't quite put her finger on what was strange about it.
She looked around but didn't see anything unusual.
As we walked, a fork in the road appeared ahead.
Two paths were offered to them.
The two roads look exactly the same, with no difference whatsoever, even the blue light inside them is the same, but the only difference is the top of the two roads.
The left side reads "Sunlight," and the right side reads "Nightfall."
One is a path to life, the other is a path to death.
Leng Huai glanced at it only once before walking to the right.
Mo Xiaoxin asked in confusion, "Did you figure something out?"
Leng Huai: "No."
Mo Xiaoxin's eyes widened: "Then why are you going this way? This looks like a dead end!"
Leng Huai: "Then why don't you go to the left?"
Mo Xiaoxin shook her head.
"Then let's go."
"..."
Oh well, I thought he had a lot of experience, but it turns out he was just guessing.
Letting her go alone is worse than just killing her.
Fortunately, once inside, there were no wild beasts or traps; it was simply a path no different from the one before.
We reached the exit after walking for a short while.
Mo Xiaoxin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But before I could even relax for a second, my heart started pounding again.
"Why is there another fork in the road? Now there are four paths?"
Spring brings forth life, summer brings song, autumn brings decay, and winter brings slumber.
This time, Mo Xiaoxin didn't ask Leng Huai and directly chose the rightmost option, Dong Mei, without hesitation.
Now it was Leng Huai who became curious: "What, did you find something?"
Mo Xiaoxin: "Anyway, I don't know how to choose, so I'll just pick one randomly."
Leng Huai raised an eyebrow: "Oh? But this time I want to choose Chun Sheng on the far left."
"You!" Mo Xiaoxin's pretty eyebrows shot up.
This guy did it on purpose!
I know she's afraid to go alone.
Mo Xiaoxin followed Leng Huai into Chunsheng with a dejected air.
She wondered if, once they got out, they would have eight paths to choose from.
She walked on with her head down, not even noticing when Leng Huai had disappeared.
When she looked up, she found herself alone in the passageway.
"Leng Huai? Leng Huai? Where did you go? Stop hiding, I saw you!" Mo Xiaoxin searched around for Leng Huai's figure, her voice echoing in the passage, making her feel a chill down her spine.
What happened?
She clearly followed Leng Huai in, so how could she have lost him?
She started running quickly, heading towards the exit.
Sure enough, eight forks in the road were found at the exit.
Now she's in a strange trap. Leng Huai is still nowhere to be found.
Fortunately, there were no monsters causing trouble here, so at least her life was safe.
After experiencing the transformation into sixteen gates, Mo Xiaoxin finally gave up.
This endless growth makes it pointless for her to waste her energy like this.
She sat by the jade wall, resting.
I stared blankly at the arched jade ceiling.
If she weren't currently in the Ruins of the Demon Realm, these sixteen doors, combined with the blue light, would have presented a rather unique sight.
Unfortunately, she has no heart to appreciate it now.
In a daze, she saw a door that seemed different from the others, with something hanging in front of it, but she was too far away to see it clearly. She stood up and walked over.
This sight sent chills down her spine; it was Leng Huai's head!
"ah!!"
She woke up with a start, still sitting on the floor leaning against the jade wall. She instinctively looked towards the door, but thankfully there was nothing there.
Something seemed to be tugging at her hair from behind. She gave it a gentle tug, and a strand of hair was pulled out, causing her to wince in pain.
She looked back and saw that it was just stuck in a crack in the jade wall.
She straightened her clothes and hair, deciding to go find Leng Huai. Staying here wasn't a solution; if others came in, it might be detrimental to her.
A thought suddenly popped into her head: why not go back to the previous passage? Maybe she could run into Leng Huai again.
At the very least, we can't go any further.
Let's get right to it.
She strode toward the door.
Unbeknownst to her, the crack in the jade wall where she had just been sitting was slowly healing, like a gaping mouth gradually swallowing her hair until it disappeared completely.
After she came out through the door she had come from, she found herself back at the location of the eight doors.
Mo Xiaoxin felt a surge of joy. Fortunately, she could turn back time; otherwise, she would have gone crazy.
At this moment, Leng Huai encountered the same thing as Mo Xiaoxin. As he walked, he found that Mo Xiaoxin had disappeared without a trace, and there were more and more doors. If he continued to walk like this, he didn't know what strange things would happen.
He stopped and began to walk back the way he came.
Fortunately, when Mo Xiaoxin returned to the Four Doors, she finally met Leng Huai, but she discovered that she and Leng Huai did not come out of the same door.
But they clearly entered through the same door!
Leng Huai also noticed this, and after the two met up, they stopped wandering around and stayed in place to think.
Mo Xiaoxin: "Tell me, what exactly are these doors trying to mislead us about?"
Leng Huai: "Not bad, you've learned your lesson. Now you know these doors are just to mislead us."
Mo Xiaoxin's eyes widened, and she said angrily, "No matter what, I am the princess of the Southern Demon Realm, the daughter of the ancient war god Yue. I am very smart, okay?"
Leng Huai chuckled, dispelling some of the eerie atmosphere.
Mo Xiaoxin's nervousness gradually subsided. For some reason, she felt a sense of security when Leng Huai was by her side.
No, no, he's her target, someone who's killed her many times. How could she have this feeling?
Leng Huai said in a low voice, "These doors might not be the exit, the real exit..."
Leng Huai suddenly stopped speaking and stared straight ahead.
Mo Xiaoxin was confused. Following his gaze, she saw a woman who looked exactly like her but was naked walking out of the door she had just come out of.
Mo Xiaoxin instantly felt a chill run down her spine. Leng Huai was staring straight at the woman, and she couldn't help but blush. She shouted angrily, "Hey, you pervert, what are you looking at!"
Mo Xiaoxin stood in front of Leng Huai, trying to cover his eyes.
When the woman saw Mo Xiaoxin, her body trembled, and then a fierce look appeared in her eyes. In the blink of an eye, the woman had rushed in front of her.
Leng Huai: "Watch out!"
An icicle came crashing down, and Mo Xiaoxin quickly dodged it.
Leng Huai ignited a flame in his hand and knocked the ice pillar aside, shattering it into ice shards.
Mo Xiaoxin stared at the woman in astonishment: "How does she know ice magic?"
Mo Xiaoxin was puzzled, but she didn't have time to think about it. She quickly swung a string of ice pillars she had solidified in her hand at the woman.
The woman dodged aside, furious: "You thief who stole my face, and you even dared to learn my magic! Die!"
Mo Xiaoxin was taken aback.
This woman's voice and appearance are exactly the same as hers. What's going on?
Could it be some kind of shadow fog again?
Before Mo Xiaoxin could even think, the woman attacked her again, each move a martial art she had learned, including the Five Elements magic she had just mastered.
But after fighting the woman, he discovered that her magical power was less than half of his own.
Therefore, it is definitely not a shadow fog.
But what did this thing transform into?
Mo Xiaoxin's mind was in a mess. This demon realm was truly an eye-opener for her, with all sorts of demons gathered together.
Mo Xiaoxin cornered the woman, pressing an icicle against her neck: "Tell me, what exactly are you?"
The woman showed no fear as she faced death, saying, "I am Mo Xiaoxin, and what are you? How dare you impersonate me?"
A surge of anger welled up inside Mo Xiaoxin, but she remained outwardly calm. She quickly replayed every scene from after entering the room in her mind, focusing on the one thing that seemed suspicious…
It's that crack!
Incredulity filled her eyes: "Could it be... that you were transformed from jade?"
The woman seemed to have been hit where it was supposed to be, and a guilty look appeared on her face, but she quickly recovered and returned to normal.
"I'm not her, I'm Mo Xiaoxin, and I'm going to kill you!"
After learning the woman's background, Mo Xiaoxin's eyes flashed with cold light, and he intensified his movements, piercing the woman's neck with an ice pillar. The woman struggled frantically.
Mo Xiaoxin became ruthless, and the woman was no match for her at all.
The woman bled profusely, then convulsed a few times before collapsing to the ground.
Leng Huai, who had been watching from the sidelines, clapped his hands and cheered: "It seems my guidance was effective; you've made great progress!"
Mo Xiaoxin rolled her eyes: "Narcissistic."
"Who exactly is this woman?" Leng Huai asked.
She had originally wanted to ask Leng Huai, but it seemed that Leng Huai didn't know what was going on either.
Mo Xiaoxin told Leng Huai everything that had happened when she entered the door.
Leng Huai: "If I'm not mistaken, the jade here can turn a person's body into a real person, that is, to replicate an exact replica of a person. Fortunately, you only lost one hair. If you had lost a few more hairs, who knows what the scene would have been like."
Mo Xiaoxin immediately pictured a dense mass of naked women appearing before them.
It's weird to think about.
Recalling the unwavering gaze Leng Huai had shown when the woman appeared, Mo Xiaoxin couldn't help but curse inwardly, "That big pervert!"
However, thinking that Leng Huai did this to protect her, the nameless anger in her heart disappeared.
However, just now, Mo Xiaoxin finally figured out the mechanism here. Mo Xiaoxin said to Leng Huai, "Those people may be here in a little while. We must leave here quickly."
Leng Huai was somewhat surprised: "You know what's going on here?"
Mo Xiaoxin: "Don't underestimate me!"
They are now inside the four doors.
Mo Xiaoxin took Leng Huai's hand and walked through the second door from the left. After exiting, there were eight doors. The two walked through the fourth door, and unsurprisingly, there were sixteen doors after they came out. Mo Xiaoxin then walked through the eighth door with her eyes fixed on it.
Leng Huai gradually discovered the pattern, but was the pattern that Mo Xiaoxin found correct?
He couldn't help but feel a little doubtful and uneasy, but to his surprise, when he stepped out of the door, they finally came out!
Leng Huai was quite surprised and asked, "How did you discover this pattern?"
"I have to thank you for coming out of the other door and giving me a hint."
Leng Huai was still puzzled: "What hint?"
Mo Xiaoxin's eyes sparkled, and she smiled as she said, "Actually, there has only ever been one path here. All the other paths are just illusions designed to confuse us. We just need to take the second, the fourth, the eighth, and so on, and we will find the real exit."
*
The heavy, ancient stone door was pushed open from the outside.
“Just leave your body hair behind, and you can break through the barriers and find the exit,” a man read aloud from a wooden sign.
The man carefully hid the wooden sign.
He can't let anyone else see this message.
It would be best if every single one of the remaining people stayed in the Ruins of Ashes, so that his reputation in the Demon Realm would continue to rise.
This man was none other than Min Dibao.
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